Perfecting the Twitter Headline
May 12, 2009 by Michael J. Aarons
Filed under Blogging
Whoever said that microblogging is for lazy writers has got it wrong. True enough, Twitter only lets you write 140 characters or so, but this limitation actually forces one to be more creative with what you write.
When you write a full-length 300-word blog post, you can take all the liberties you want in order to get your point across. You can post a photo, you can post bullet points, or you can even embed videos. With Twitter (among others), it’s just those 140 characters–not even enough for a full paragraph!
And so, just like writing an effective headline, it takes mastery to get that effective, attention-grabbing tweet done.
Use attractive adjectives
If you read a headline that says Awesome, or Amazing or Great, then that would surely get your interest, won’t it? How about Interesting or Mind boggling? Using these adjectives on a tweet would surely attract the interest of your friends, or even people casually browsing your tweet, especially if that person is interested in the topic that you’re tweeting about.
For instance, if you have a science blog, and you post something about CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, you can tweet and link to it with something like this: “Awesome pics of the CERN LHC. A physics junkie’s dream come true!”
Be sure to back up your awesome headline with awesome content or pictures, thoughh!
Use hashtags
A lot of people come across your tweets not because they’re your friends. Some would be doing searches for certain keywords. One way by which you can add tags to your tweets is through hashtags, or the # symbol, followed by the keyword.
Say, you’re tweeting about cars, you can add #cars. Or you can even be more specific by adding #cars #suv. This makes it easier for people searching for SUVs to stumble your tweet.
So, you can say “Just filled up my #suv’s tank. Boy, #gas prices are high these days.” And then you can link to your blog post describing your story spending big bucks on a full tank.
Use URL shortening services
Twitter’s character limitation is definitely very limiting if you plan to insert URLs to your blog posts. Fortunately, there are a handful of URL shortening services out there that convert something as long as a hundred characters or more into a tiny URL with just about 10 characters or less.
You can check out tinyurl.com, bit.ly, is.gd or other services. They basically give you the same functionality, but some, like TinyURL, would let you customize the name that comes after tinyurl.com/, so you can better remember a URL if you plan to use it elsewhere.
These services would let people click on the short URL and they would be redirected to the original source. Just be sure to use the more respected and reputable URL shortening services, as some fly-by-night ones might lead you to malware sites instead.
A good Twitter headline is short, sweet and interesting. Keep it that way, and people will keep following you, and they will most likely click on links in your tweets.
Looking Forward on increasing Blog Traffic?
Follow 7 Simple Steps:
We all searching and wandering sites one after the other in order to increase traffic on our blog. You need not do that now because I am showing you the 7 simple tasks which you have to perform in order to get daily blog traffic.
Spend time on Twitter:
Twitter is a networking and building community where you are expected to at least spend 30 minutes. By doing this you will be increasing lots of traffic on your blog and even post you new posts on twitter for the same.
Use of MyBlogLog:
You just have to a make a simple effort of at least adding one person and one community each day. By doing this there is going to be a huge change on your blog traffic because by this not only people whom you have added are visiting your blog but also the other people will start adding you themselves thereby increasing your blog traffic.
Commenting on Blogs:
You are expected to comment 10 of your favorite blogs daily as if the blog is on same niche as you are in it will help you get ideas for your own blog and people will start reading your posts and will start commenting them.
Communication:
This is a best way to increase your blog traffic. In this you have to aware people of your blog. To aware the people you can talk to them online or can even use business cards for the purpose. What’s our mane aim is to do publicity of your blog as much as you can do in order to derive the traffic into your blogs.
Linking with media sites:
I would suggest you that at least try and make an effort to link your blog with at least one social media site, don’t neglect the links which you are already having but try to add new social media sites links too. By doing this your blog traffic will increase incredibly.
Forums:
One of the best ways for publicity of your blog is by making forums. In this try to post as much as you can not by explaining people how good your blog is but by actually sneaking through their interests and presenting them with the useful content which they are looking for. This will again help in increasing your blog traffic as visitors will love to know about what they are interested in.
Connecting with People:
We all use emails. E-mails are a best way of connecting with people. You just have to make your that every email that you send give your blog link and title. This will let the people view your blog and once they like it blog traffic will automatically increase and that’s what we wanted.
By following the above steps and practicing it will greatly help in increasing your Blog Traffic all you have to do is practice them regularly by spending at least few hours of your day to the above.













